#true bugs

its coloration might be drab compared to the last one i posted, but the convex creature with a cheap tribal tattoo that is Odontotarsus grammicus is hard to mistake for anything else. presumably, the difference comes from the fact that i found the other individual when vegetation still had a semblance of color that wasn't some shade of beige, while this one had to adapt to the misery of dry season. me too, O. grammicus

Thanks to my very dark phone screen I couldn't tell that I cast a shadow completely covering him, but still thought he looked cool.

i appreciate all my local lace bugs, as much as most of them just look like flat seeds, but i'd be lying if i said i don't wish i saw fancy ones more often. despite thorough searches on multiple plants my first Stephanitis was this bewildering encounter with one in my bathroom at 4 in the morning, which is exactly what a ghost or killer would place as bait if it wanted me to go outside at 4 in the morning to look for more lace bugs. but i endured

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i wasn't exaggerating the magnitude of the Piezodorus lituratus party i previously mentioned - two weeks had passed but the trio seen here is the same, cozied up between the same two leaves, seemingly doing the same amount of nothing in there. i can't imagine the weather made them want to leave, late summer also gives me the urge to get in a bunker